When load shedding was at its peak, people bought inverters and switched to solar. Now the water crisis has citizens weighing their options for alternative and augmented water supply. Navigating this landscape can be difficult, so it is important...
As South Africans prepared for their traditional end-of-year festivities – from family braais to elaborate Christmas spreads – an uncomfortable truth loomed behind the celebrations. In a country where millions experience hunger, holiday food waste...
Hammanskraal is another Gauteng region where water supply is erratic in the best of times and non-existent in the worst of times. But good news has finally arrived to its residents, nearly 18 months after suffering from a Cholera outbreak. Magalies...
The North West Department of Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs (CoGTA) has committed to collaborating with all relevant stakeholders to resolve challenges at the Ditsobotla Local Municipality. The department made the commitment during...
The steel industry is critical in the reconstruction and recovery plan for the South African economy, particularly the manufacturing, mining, construction, engineering, and transportation sectors, said the Department of Trade, Industry and...
Cape Town’s approach to Day Zero water supply in early 2018 created shock waves around the world. It was at the time widely recognised that this might be the first time globally that a vast, modern metro region was in serious danger of running out...
The Department of Water and Sanitation (DWS), in collaboration with the South African National Committee (SANC) for UNESCO’s Intergovernmental Hydrological Programme (IHP), calls on members of the public to participate in the Citizen Science for...
Sustainability, resilience and net zero – these were the themes that defined the inauguration of the 2025 president of the South African Institution of Civil Engineering (SAICE). As Andrew Clothier, 2024 SAICE president, reflected on his tenure...
South Africa has had a tough few years. Surviving state capture, infrastructure delays and setbacks, the rise of the construction mafia, South Africa’s ongoing water crisis, and loadshedding. These existential problems are set against a struggling...
The City of Tshwane Metro Municipality has announced that water supplied from the Magalies Klipdrift Water Treatment Plant to Hammanskraal is safe for consumption. This comes after the completion of Phase 1 of the water treatment project. The areas...
